Terrible Quotes

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

The most terrible things end, at last.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

These are terrible people in ISIS, not masterminds.

(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

Every loss of life is terrible.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.